What is a Social Business Architect?

Connecting the “power of people” with enterprise process to accelerate business value.

Objective

To work for a company that will test the limits of my technical & business acumen and provide a work environment that is conducive to success.

Expertise

Enterprise Collaboration SEO Email Deliverability Content Management Web Analytics Public Speaking Project Management

Relevant Work History

Feel free to contact me for more detailed information regarding any of these projects or related topics.

  • Enterprise 2.0 - Panelist - Designing Social Applications
    Posted Nov 16, 2011, 10:11 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • Jive Software - Jive Community Manager
    Signed on with Jive Software to drive their Jive Community and become an advocate for Social Business in the industry.
    Posted Oct 25, 2011, 12:23 AM by Ryan Rutan
  • JiveWorld11 - Presenter - October 2011
    Co-Panelist - Jive Champions Q/A: - here
    Shared best practices, experiences, and general insights into the adoption of Social Business at National Instruments.  Both internally and externally on the Jive platform.

    Co-Presented - From Plugins to Apps: - here

    Come learn from customers and partners on their experience in building Jive Apps, having previously built Plugins.

    You will hear about Ryan Rutan’s experience in customizing the Jive Engage platform at National Instruments (NI), first with Plugins, and now with Jive Apps.

    You will also learn from Gliffy and AppFusions, who have built plugins for Atlassian products Confluence and JIRA, and have now built Jive Apps. Gliffy is the most powerful way for employees to create and discuss ideas visually through flow charts and other types of diagrams. AppFusions is an engineering consultancy of experts creating implementations, solutions, connectors – SaaS or on-premise solutions for JIRA, Confluence, Spigit and Zendesk.

    Random fact:  Volunteer CO-MC for Day 2 Keynote with Will Rose from T-Mobile
    Posted Oct 20, 2011, 10:39 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • Interviewed for TechTarget's SearchUnifiedCommunications.com
    Interviewed and referenced in article by Jessica Scarpati for TechTarget's SearchUnifiedCommunications.com entitled "Enterprise social software Magic Quadrant: Assess user need first"

    You can see this article at the following location:
    http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/news/2240085703/Enterprise-social-software-Magic-Quadrant-Assess-user-need-first
    Posted Sep 15, 2011, 7:55 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • "3 Seashells" of Notification Management in Jive 5, Demystified! by Ryan Rutan of National Instruments
    Author of the popular Jive blogpost, "3 Seashells" of Notification Management in Jive 5, Demystified! by Ryan Rutan of National Instruments outlining the Jive What Matters interfaces in the Jive Engage Platform.  More specifically, articulating the importance of notification management in social software as it relates to successful adoption and implementation longevity.

    Special thanks to Johanna Devereaux Hedges, a talented writer and friend, who helped polish this article into its final state!
    Posted Sep 2, 2011, 12:00 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • Jive Community - Released SBS Widget Pack Plugin - February 2011
    What is the SBS Widget Pack Plugin?
    A wrapper collection for sharing highly useful Widgets with the Jive Community.
    The widgets included in the first release of this plugin are:
    • Content Summary Widget
    • Categorized Projects Widget
    • Upcoming Tasks Widget
    For more information check out the following links:
    SBS Widget Pack - Plugin
    Posted Feb 15, 2011, 10:47 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • Interaction Design Association - Co-Panelist - January 2011

    National Instruments has won awards for the way it has built user feedback into the development process for its flagship product. The company invites users to submit features and rate others' submissions, collects feedback about new technologies before they're ready for release and actively measures the success of their co-innovation.

    In this panel, we'll bring folks together from Community, Product Management and IT teams to teach us how they're doing it - and how they're measuring it. Panelists include:

    For more information on this event, please see the following URL:
    http://www.ixda.org/node/28858
    Posted Jan 5, 2011, 1:06 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • Jive Community - Released Document Lock Plugin - December 2010
    What is the Document Lock Plugin?
    Retrofits aspects of lock-based collaboration onto SBS documents, with an emphasis on lock visibility/awareness over absolute enforcement.   It is very difficult to enforce a persisted (non-session-based) Lock, like a Source-Control system, as a plugin given the current state of SBS.   Instead this plugin focuses on the ability to offer a social process to help people coordinate better when collaborating on Documents.

    For more information check out the following links:
    Document Lock - Plugin
    Document Lock - Video Walk-Through
    Posted Feb 15, 2011, 10:41 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • JiveWorld 2010 - Featured Presenter - September 2010
    Presented in the Customer Showcase section of the JiveWorld 2010 Technical Track. 

    Below is a link to the presentation video:
    Overcoming Barriers to Content Contribution: Pragmatic Patterns for Community Platforms

    Also featured in the Day 3 Key Note as an advocate and early adopter of the Jive Apps Development Framework.
    Jive 5 and Beyond
    Posted Dec 24, 2010, 12:18 AM by Ryan Rutan
  • National Instruments - Jive SBS 4.5.0 Upgrade from 2.5.15 - June 2010
    Project Managed all aspects of the upgrade as the Jive SBS Architect for National Instruments.  Maintained strong communication through active discussion and Beta Access Programs, to mitigate risk of software version not being available and stable upon desired release date.  Jive SBS 4.5.0 was released on June 8th, 2010 ... 2 years of customizations, extensions, and plugins merged/migrated/released with the rest of the platform on ni.com/community on June 25th.

    Released the QuickTemplates Plugin, Admin Essentials Plugin, and the ICS Export Plugin to the Jive Community in response to this upgrade.  Numerous internal plugins, such as SSO/SEO related capabilities, were created as part of this release as well.

    Update:  Shortly after this upgrade, lead the upgrade of our internal Jive SBS instance from 4.0.2 to 4.5.2.
    Posted Dec 23, 2010, 11:51 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • National Instruments - Internal Collaboration 2.0 initiatives with Jive SBS - May 2009
    Through a series of workshops and information sessions, lead multiple teams through exercises to evaluate the benefits of improving internal collaboration at National Instruments.  Evaluated multiple vendors, including Drupal, Confluence, Lotus Connections/QuickR, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Jive SBS.  Through each progression in the evaluation, more visibility was brought to bare on the effort, as the realization for a "Social Business" became more of an imperative, rather than a nice to have.  The effort culminated in selecting Jive SBS as the next generation collaboration platform for National Instruments.  Jive SBS was launched internally, known as NI Talk, in February 2010, the results and positive feedback on the system in the first year is unprecedented.
    Posted Dec 23, 2010, 10:01 PM by Ryan Rutan
  • National Instruments - Online Community upgrade Jive Clearspace Community 2.5 - November 2008

    Posted Jan 10, 2010, 8:39 AM by Ryan Rutan
  • National Instruments - Online Community revamp with Jive ClearspaceX 1.7 - February 2008

    Posted Jan 10, 2010, 8:39 AM by Ryan Rutan
  • National Instruments - Peopleclick PGP Integration Service - January 2008

    Posted Jan 10, 2010, 8:39 AM by Ryan Rutan
  • National Instruments - Started National Instruments Java Authors (NInJA) Community - October 2007

    Posted Jan 10, 2010, 9:06 AM by Ryan Rutan
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